The Sewing Factory Girls av Posy Lovell

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<p><i>The Sewing Factory Girls</i> is Posy Lovell''s heartwarming and moving novel inspired by the brave, hardworking women who fought to improve working conditions at the Singer Factory in Clydebank. It is an uplifting and emotional novel of friendship and courage, for readers who enjoy fiction based on real life stories.<br><br>Like half of all the young women living in Clydebank in early 1911, <b>Ellen </b>works at the Sewing Machine factory. So does her big sister, <b>Bridget</b>, Bridget''s fianc¿b>Malcolm</b>, and her new friend <b>Sadie</b>, who has recently come back home after the death of her father to help her mum look after her siblings.<br><br>For<b> Sadie</b>, the factory is a way to make ends meet. But<b> Ellen</b> has sewing in her veins. She sings in the factory choir, helps organise the gala days and is even making <b>Bridget''s</b> wedding dress on her beloved sewing machine. But after the excitement of the wedding dies down, things take a turn for the worse. Ellen d